Extension Topic 4

Hi. So today I'm going to be talking about my little brother john in some ways that the

components in the science model have been implemented in his education.

Um, so first I'm just gonna go over some terms that I think,

um, everyone should know before I, uh, do the rest of the presentation.

So down syndrome

Is when someone has an extra chromosome and it's the 21st chromosome.

Um,

it is typically associated with physical growth delays and intellectual delays.

Um, it's a mild to moderate disability and

um,

it has characteristic facial facial facial features.

So just recognizable facial features. Um, okay, so nonverbal

is when someone

doesn't use speech as a form of communication.

So nonverbal is like sign language would be considered an honorable. Um, so art.

So art meetings, our annual meetings that

special or sped parents go to to discuss the goals and progress, um,

concerns behaviors, transportation needs, summer school technology,

speech and OT therapies.

Um, just basically

it's really just where a parent can advocate for their special education student

and can

talk with the teacher on things.

Both of them can be doing better and just the goals they have for their students

and child.

Um, so then next is sage. So stage is the special and gifted education.

That's what it stands for.

And it's just a program that my mom created in my destroyed that

helps, um,

students outside of the special education

classrooms to understand these disabilities more

and it doesn't just have to be students in special education classes.

There were things that had to do with

hearing issues, like people who are death and just like

knowing what it feels like to be

those students. So it was just like workshops where there was

things

um so they would have like earbuds or headphones over them and they

basically couldn't hear anything and they'd have to be communicating with us.

It's just very, it was a very interactive thing just to show. Um

and it still happens to my mom just

doesn't do the presentation anymore or the workshops,

but she craved it and now it's moved on and

there's a stage here in the district that just goes,

so it doesn't seem okay.

Next, I wanna talk about the term inclusion.

So the way I'm going to be using, this is just how

um

what I mean is uh

sped students um

just spending time in regular classrooms outside

of their special education classrooms and how

um

they interact with other students.

Um

and yeah, just this

just kind of means that there

not in their costume, it could be electives or

regular science costs, doing

experiments, stuff like that,

they're just outside of their special education classroom and

interacting with students their age.

Okay,

so next I'm going to introduce

my brother.

Um so john is the fifth kid out of seven kids and he is the brother right after me,

He is 17 years old and is one of the happiest people you will ever read

growing up with, john

uh huh

was not always the easiest,

not because of him just because of all the

trials that came with and I was right before him

um

but I definitely will say it was the greatest

blessing of my life and

that's why throughout this

presentation I just want to show you what it's like

um for an education for him and how it was like for my parents because they had

four kids before him

who had a regular education and just the struggles they some

of the things they dealt with when coming to the costume.

All right,

so next I am then going to talk about

yeah,

um just components in the slab model that influence on education.

Um so the first thing is building background,

this is really important when it comes to special education students because all

of them are so different even when they have the same disability,

the things that engage them just vary with every student but even more

with them because sometimes it is so hard to get them engaged,

it's important to know the things they like and just to know

um

a lot of details about them and

even just about their parents and everything

um

and how involved their parents are and

um

anyway,

so um in our textbook is talking about english learners

and it says this um connecting with students experiences too,

connecting students,

students experiences to a text,

developing background knowledge and teaching key vocabulary are

all effective ways to increase comprehension and achievement.

Um

so the same goes for special education students,

when you connect them to something,

they're going to remember it and they're also going to enjoy it and it's going to be

more beneficial for their learning experience.

Okay, next, I want to talk about strategies.

So when it came to my brother john because he is an honorable,

there was a lot of strategies that teachers,

teachers tried to implement and some of those things were,

john had an ipad that he used for communication just in the morning and um it just had

a picture of

a word and then the word underneath and then the ipad would say it out loud,

so that was away from my brother to communicate

with my parents um and then also just doing

a lot of interactive things with him because john

is very hands on the learning throughout Covid.

They had him do these baking Fridays, so he would

bake or cook on friday.

Um and just the teachers do their virtually guiding him

through the steps and he would get to that.

It was really awesome.

But anyway,

this is what the textbook says about english learners

says many of these research research studies focused on

highly effective readers and learners who use a variety

of started in an interactive and recursive manner.

These readers are

these readers use learning strategies that are flexible and appropriate to the tax

the task. So

the part about flexibility is what really I

felt strongly related to special education students because

like I said,

even when these students have the same disability, which Muslims don't,

it's still very different experience.

And so

being flexible in your classroom because you

can't really group these students together,

you

typically have a lot of AIDS in the costume or,

but it's because these students

each have things that they need to do

for their education

and they're

typically very different things.

But so

these costumes need to be flexible to

change based on these students moods because

sometimes they can't push through the day

or sometimes certain things will not engage them that did the day before.

Um, and so you just have to have that flexibility.

Okay, and then uh,

the last thing I want to talk about is parent involvement.

So in the silent model, even though this isn't like a main component,

it is something within a couple of components

where it's talking about parent involvement and how,

um, when students go home and um,

so they read books with their kids, like,

or when,

as soon as I come home and read books with their parents,

they

are

in their homes

more than they are at school. And so building that

knowledge at home with people that are comfortable with people that

they are raising them because again, a teacher is also not a permanent thing.

And so it's very important for the students,

for any student to have their parents involved.

And so

with that I'm going to move on to the next thing because,

um, so I

did ask my mom some questions

that I felt like, um,

I wanted to know about jOHN

and just some things I

couldn't always remember because again,

I was growing up around the same time he was.

Um,

so I just asked some questions about the involvement

and just the methods and these are some uh,

the questions I asked and then my favorite responses. Okay.

Uh, so the first one, it's kind of a longer answer, but the question was,

did you feel like it was important for you to be heavily involved and if, so,

how did that benefit jOHn.

Um,

so,

um, this is what she said. Yes, absolutely. I am his main advocate.

I have attended every art and meeting for jOHn since he was a baby.

Um, I want what's best for jOHn because of that. I have to advocate for him.

I have

been heavily involved as well in P. T.

I started stage, the special and gifted education in my district.

I am able to easily have access and speak to administration and address concerns.

When I'm in an art meeting,

I had developed a relationship with the people present

like admin and teachers outside of the meeting,

whether by doing PT launches volunteering,

et cetera.

Even the coaches, we help outside of that meaning when they are,

they're representing PD costs.

So I know that helps. Also being involved in the district level helps as well.

I can contact the sped director or superintendent at any time if necessary.

I think everyone needs to spend lots of their energy advocating for the truth.

I think that last statement is very true. Like

with, um,

even in the side model, just talking about how the parents should be involved,

It's the same thing with every student that

every parent should want, what's best for their education.

Um,

um,

and I think even more so when it comes to special education students just because,

um,

typically they don't always have the

resources that regular shouldn't have because there are just less of them.

And so it's very important for those parents to

advocate for their Children to get the needs,

um,

further education.

Um, okay. And then

the next question I asked were,

what were things teachers may have suggested we could

do at home or help enrich his own experience.

Um, so my mom's answer to that was

uhh using the device in the home for speech. So like I talked about the ipad,

he used that a lot

and then also using sign language and then,

uh, doing this, then that is when you tell jOHN, if you do this,

then you can play with your blocks, for example,

also making johN to any verbalization prior to getting an item.

Um, so I'm always talking about is doing this,

then that is when you tell john if you do this,

then you can play with your blocks in kind of persuading him like

okay, if you do this part of your learning today, then you can

go do something he really wants to,

so if Covid, my mom used that a lot

um just because he was home all day and so to get him to actually do his classes,

like somebody that was really hard, so she had to home, okay,

we can go outside and play in the poor um

go take buddy on a walk our dog, just those things.

And then lastly, the last question I asked,

my mom is how important do you

think teachers building background relationship with john,

how important do you think teachers building background in english with john was

um

okay

for john it is very important. He always has

a preferred person in his life, He likes one parent better or siblings,

it's just how he works.

He also loves hands on learning puzzle reinforcement

that comes with building a relationship with him.

So knowing more about john and building that relationship with john, he will um

work with you better and it will be better for his education.

Um and the last thing that my mom said,

I just asked her if she had any more comments

to add and I really liked that she said this.

Um so she said it is a blessing to have john,

I think that every character trait the school district

are trying to instill in their students can be

gained by having general education students spend time with

a special needs students is someone said to me,

you could have a perfectly healthy child or johN, I would pick john.

Um,

and

I really just want to end this presentation

with

saying that,

um,

I think with any

student, it's really important to have that support system

and uh,

I think

growing up with

brother who had

down syndrome,

it was not always the easy experience, easiest experience, but

the

things I learned or the things I'm still learning,

like even asking my mom these questions like things I didn't even know happened um

is amazing and it,

I think it will help me become a better teacher because realizing

that every student is different and even though typically when it comes to

large classroom sizes,

you do have a lot of students and you can't always

tend to every students need,

but it's important to recognize that they are all

different and not teach them like they're all the

same because every student has certain characteristics and it's

important to implement these things in the education process.

Um,

and

thank you for listening

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